I like to point out to friends all the cool features like: “Look, there’s a pocket with a clear face for ID, so they’ll know where to send the body when they pull it out of the snow bank.”

Canada Goose parkas are, it must be said, very, very warm.  Where I live now, it doesn’t get cold enough to be able to wear my parka - the temperature only manages to drops to about -25degC.  Not quite cold enough.

In Montreal, everyone wears Kanuk.  Of course, being Montreal, Kanuks are a lot more stylish.

Not to mention letting the snow off the mountains.

You can’t sit comfortably outside in Vancouver because it’s either cold and raining for eight months of the year, or it’s just cool the other four months. 20 degrees for an average high in July is not hot. It’s cool. This is why people in Vancouver wear flannel to play volleyball on the beach.

I was in the emergency room with a broken wrist last winter and my roomie was a lady who had dislocated her shoulder.  
Each of us requested that our coats be cut off.  Mine, a 6-yr-old $80 Colombia ski jacket that I didn’t give a crap about cutting.  Hers, an $800 knee-length parka that when cut, released enough feathers to subsequently fill our hospital room until it looked like the remnants of a 3-hour pillow fight.  

My point – sort of amazing that not only are people willing to pay $800 for a coat but that also when in pain, they would be willing to cut it in half with a pair of surgical scissors with little to no hesitation.

Reasoning being that it’s Canadian military equipment, so it’s most likely at the technological level of WW2.

I’ve had it about 15 years, and in that time there’s only been one Winter when it made sense to wear it.  In a solid 8 or 10 days when it didn’t go above -30 C, including a longish walk at -45, I was always comfortably warm in that thing.

Although they did make a Drake special edition coat that uses Arctic fox fur.  Not that that’s a picture of an Arctic Fox either, but oh well.

Anyway, no, Toronto people don’t need it. So neither do 99% of the people who do wear those coats.  Also, the process to get them has been called unnecessarily cruel. I guess you can dispute the ‘unnecessarily’ term, but not the ‘cruel’ part.

This is a biased but interesting counterpoint to Canada Goose’s fur use policy.  Good read, if a bit long.

http://furbearerdefenders.com/blog/blog/1-blog/92-saving-trapped-skunks 

 Tell that to Pabst.

I think there might be a market in tools that help people who can’t drink coffee while wearing clothes.

This is an interesting profile of the company and the guy running it: http://www.thegridto.com/life/fashion/guiding-the-flock/

One of the very reasonable complaints leveled against the company though is that they use fur taken from fox’s caught in leg-hold traps, which is cruel and inhumane.

Here’s an unnecessarily inflammatory picture of that:

Perhaps we could switch jobs. Mine is soul-crushing (the day-job at least), but it’s located in a very cool neighborhood.